Surgery General
Dec 16, 2022
The following is a summary of "Electrodiagnostic Studies in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy" published in the December 2022 issue of Surgery by Davenport et al. The majority of the time, a com...
Dec 16, 2022
The following is a summary of "Natural History of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy" published in the December 2022 issue of Surgery by Houten et al. The most common cause of spinal cord dysfunc...
Dec 16, 2022
The following is a summary of "Radiographic Parameters in Cervical Myelopathy" published in the December 2022 issue of Respiratory by Waddell et al. This analysis took the form of a story. Firs...
Dec 15, 2022
The following is a summary of "Maternal and neonatal outcome of women before vs. after bariatric surgery: A single tertiary center experience" published in the November 2022 issue of Surgery by Hazan ...
Dec 15, 2022
The following is a summary of "Crowdsourced assessment of surgical skills: A systematic review" published in the November 2022 issue of Surgery by Olsen et al. The procedure's success significantly...
Dec 15, 2022
The following is a summary of "Adhesive small bowel obstruction in octogenarians: A 6-year retrospective single-center analysis of clinical management and outcomes" published in the November 2022 issu...
Dec 12, 2022
Recently, immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has achieved great success in inhibition of the recurrence and metastasis of tumor. However, this therapy is challenged by the poor delivery efficien...
Dec 12, 2022
Seroma remains a leading postsurgical complication in plastic surgery. Conventional drains are ineffective in clearing blood and fluid and closing down surgical spaces. The Interi (Internal Closure Sy...
Dec 12, 2022
Fibroid is a very common benign tumor of the uterus for which uterine artery embolization is one of the treatment modalities of choice. Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a minimally invasive proced...
Dec 12, 2022
Acoustic emission (AE) sensing is an increasingly researched topic in the context of orthopedics and has a potentially high diagnostic value in the non-invasive assessment of joint disorders, such as ...
Dec 12, 2022
Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases encompass a vast spectrum of up to 200 conditions that are increasingly prevalent, with significant associated disability and socioeconomic burden. Their impact ...
Dec 12, 2022
The protective efficacy of transanal tube for anastomosis was compared with that of diverting stoma in patients with rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.We included consecutive pa...
Dec 12, 2022
The proportion of older patients who are candidates for cardiac surgery is increasing. Growing evidence has shown that malnutrition is associated with a poor prognosis after cardiac surgery. The prese...
Dec 09, 2022
There was a need for an updated analysis of the surgeon's experience during the Covid-19 epidemic. For a study, researchers set out to explain how the pandemic's effects on surgeon stress levels and s...
Dec 09, 2022
Few studies have compared the endocrine-specific results of parathyroidectomy (PTx) with those of concurrent parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy (PTx + Tx). Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality ...
Dec 09, 2022
To perform a minimally invasive donor hepatectomy (MIDH), both laparoscopic living donor right hemihepatectomy (LLDRH) and robotic living donor right hemihepatectomy (RLDRH) have been developed. Howev...
Dec 05, 2022
To compare 2 different resin composites and 2 adhesive systems used in a new restorative protocol (partial restoration) to treat non-carious cervical lesions associated with gingival recession type 1 ...
Dec 05, 2022
As of January 26, 2022, the United States Medical Licensing Examination(USMLE) Step 1 score reporting will be changed from a numeric scoring system to pass/fail. Although the new scoring policy is exp...
Dec 05, 2022
One barrier to hand hygiene compliance is overestimation of one's own performance. Overconfidence research shows that overestimation tends to be higher for difficult tasks, which suggests that the mag...
Dec 05, 2022
Bone identification and segmentation in X-ray images are crucial in orthopedics for the automation of clinical procedures, but it often involves some manual operations. In this work, using a modified ...